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8051 development on Fedora

kd — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:33:56 +0000

First install sdcc
#yum install sdcc

Next is a small example to blink a LED connected to P1.7

#include <8051.h> void main(void) { int i=1; P1=0; /* P1.7 used as LED output */ while(1) { P1_7=!(P1_7); /* toggle P1.7*/

for(i=1;i<25000;i++);
/* for delay */

}
}

Compile it and get the hex file from intel hex
$sdcc-sdcc blink.c $ sdcc-packihx blink.ihx > blink.hex

Now you can upload the hex to the programmer :D /me is also just starting up.

lekhonee-gnome 0.11 released

kd — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:28:18 +0000

I just released lekhonee-gnome 0.11, you can download the source from here, a yum repo for Fedora 13 can be found here.

Release Details:

Add new category button is re-enabled and it works :p
Updated translations
About dialog bug fixed

lekhonee-gnome 0.10 released

kd — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:42:13 +0000

lekhonee-gnome 0.10 is just released. You can download the source from here.

This release comes with new translations for languages like Gujarati or Punjabi, also spell checking option is not anymore under right click menu ( something changed in webkit)

Here is an image of the right click menu used to look like.

FAD PUNE 2010

kd — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:18:37 +0000

So this weekend we had FAD Pune 2010. Being organizer the main issue was to get inside the office before everyone else :)

Among the things done:

Packaged accessx ( with help from Sayamindu to patch it for Fedora)
Updated code in Pony so that it works with new flickrapi API (committed but not pushed yet)
Now we have cover images in Pathagar , the digital library system.
Helped people with packaging

Yesterday in the last hours almost everyone were busy with packaging and helping each other. Had fun with all other contributors for 2 days, now getting back to the normal routine. Photos will come up later this week. I also recorded Sayamindu’s talk on OLPC as a downstream of Fedora project, you can view it here (111MB).

Error after yum update

kd — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:52:35 +0000

After doing a huge yum update on my F12 box, I found

Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686.PAE

usb-storage (1.0): Installing module.
…….(bad exit status: 10)
Build failed. Installation skipped.
Failed.

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GNUnify2010 and my python workshop

kd — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:53:02 +0000

GNUnify2010 was the first for me. Started a bit early to the venue, Rahul was along with me. His talk was in top of schedule. I slowly moved to the lab where my python workshop was scheduled.

The main target of the workshop was to show/teach the basics of the python programming language. I hear mostly students asking “How to start working on a project?” but as the learning curve is not so easy in most of the things, they run away. The only students we have from India who are contributing to any FOSS projects are the people who came in their own interest. I found programming with python can be an easy entry point for the general students and they can become better programmer in life. This is the main reason behind my python workshops in different places.

No need to buy books, great online community, projects working on different dimensions, all of these can generate interest in the students.

Coming back to my workshop, I generally try to follow my own book (which I have to update). Slowly going through simple examples and showing that it is not difficult. I ask the students to solve the lab works they do in any programming lab in python. This will help them to understand the basics of the language. The workshop lab was supposed to have 30 students, but many more came so I had to ask them to seat in groups in the computers (most of them was running Fedora ). The basic feedback I got, states that it was easy, but how the students are going to use this, I have no clue. Btw, most of the students in my workshop were from Pune University Maths department, I told them to attend Ramki’s workshop in the second half as his workshop was about explaining how to solve mathematical problems.

At the end of the workshop I showed few applications written in python and talked about job opportunity in market. 2 students contacted me after the event.

Full set of the event photos can be found here.

Coming month, I will be in Durgapur, doing another python workshop , I will also conduct a Django workshop.

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New Fedora buttons

kd — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:12:58 +0000

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Fedora logo in LED

kd — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:43:46 +0000

While it is off

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Fedora Project day in foss.in started

kd — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:01:46 +0000

Kital is giving the first talk on Fedora Security Spin. The room is not full yet, people are still coming in slowly. Kital just a very nice example of robbing bank and how one should go ahead to plan and execute that :)

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Foss.in day 1

kd — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:45:30 +0000

First day was fine. Met Kital after long time. Was really happy to find a Fedora booth which was assigned to Rahul Sundaram. Girish helped to me get one of the long waiting feature in pony.

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